Kugel A Holy Food 06 16 2026

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Plutchok’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay. Um so last week we we talked about um eating fish on chabas eating fish in particular. Um and fish for better or for worse has like a a longstanding miser of it having a certain meaning ranging all the way from the times of kazal discussing fish as the the one of the primary foods of kav chavas including all the different kubalim about gilgal and fish and etc. kubalim about gilgal and fish and etc. So fish has like a a long-standing miser of sorts or a somewhat more ancient miser in regards to making it something special that people eat that that that plays like a very special role in in in the shabasuda. Now this week I thought I'd continue by discussing kul. Um now for those of you who are who are very lit litish inclined this is is a very topic. It's not a but but in the world by by the gracebis of of various different stripes eating kgul and the different stripes eating kgul and the particular significance of kgul in the shabas played pretty outsized role and m there's a lot to talk about and I want to discuss it. The truth is that that of all the what we would call Jewish foods, the commonly Jewish foods today, kgul is somewhat unique in that according to those who study this expert, but those who study this say that kougal is not a non-Jewish food that later became popular amongst Jews. Kougal is a a Jewish food. It was invented by Jews, popularized by Jews. Now, I think the

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1. 0:04Okay. Um so last week we we talked about um eating fish on chabas eating fish…
2. 2:09was was a Jewish food in this regard that there are several like old Yiddish like…
3. 4:41meet the bal he came to the town of of Leajni or wherever the Baltani was…
4. 6:46Baltani's house and he he stole the the kgul that the rabbitson had made and set…
5. 9:22the the brings it in the Rama brings it and whatever. So the Maril is saying…
6. 11:25quote from is the is um is the says something like he he gives it like…
7. 14:03everybody the the you know the the refer to as take it or leave it. I…
8. 16:07is all connected aspheris and the kgul is connected which is the of all the midas…
9. 18:39used to do it like that. But the truth is that kgul is for prasa and…
10. 20:42means to eat the like apple kle lakshin kgle um potato kougal and and and the…

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